Resources

These are some of the many resources used while researching my family’s stories.

Gallery of photos of the Netherlands, Indonesia, and Colorado

Books & Videos

Jungle Journal: Prisoners of the Japanese in Java 1942-1945
Frank Williams

No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Incredible Story of Courage and Survival in WWII
Robert Weintraub

Prisoners in Java
Accounts by Allied Prisoners of War in the Far East (1942-1945) captured in Java

Rising from the Shadow of the Sun: A Story of Love, Survival and Joy
Ronny Herman de Jong

The Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949: Survivors’ Accounts of Japanese Invasion and Enslavement of Europeans and the Revolution That Created Free Indonesia
Jan A. Krancher

The Sumatra Railroad: Final Destination Pakan Baroe, 1943-1945
Henk Hovinga

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand

War in the Indies: The Dutch in Wartime, Survivors Remember
Anne Van Arragon Hutten (Editor)

All Ships Follow Me
Mieke Eerkens

Revolusi
David Van Reybrouck

Photographs of the Netherlands East Indies at the Tropenmuseum
Janneke van Dijk, Rob Jongmans, Anouk Mansfeld, Steven Vink, Pim Westerkamp, Wimo Ambala Bayang (Contributor)

Pocket Guide to Netherlands East Indies
Prepared by Special Service Division, Army Service Forces, United States Army

Dutch East Indies and Indo History & Culture Book List compiled by the Indo Project on Goodreads

A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia’s Largest Nation
Tim Hannigan

Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation
Elizabeth Pisani

Batavia 1910 – 1915 (Full Version)

Hell Ships naar Sumatra

Lief Indië (Dear East Indies)
Documentary on the timeless solace of Krontjong music

Genealogy Resources

Delpher
(Searchable database of Dutch newspapers, books, magazines and radio bulletins)

Dutch Genealogy

Indonesia Archives and Libraries

War Office: Japanese Index Cards of Allied Prisoners of War and Internees, Second World War

WieWasWie

Haags Gemeentearchief archief Leidschendam-Voorburg

Historisch Centrum Limburg (HCL)

Netherlands National Archives

Open Archives

United States National Archive

Ancestry

23 and Me

WEbsites About the Dutch East Indies

Some of these pages are in Dutch, but you can translate them using Google Translate.

MyIndoWorld

Pakan Baroe Death Railway

Pakanbaru Death Railway

De Stichting Herdenking Birma-Siam Spoorweg en Pakan Baroe Spoorweg
The Burma-Siam Railway Commemoration Foundation and Pakan Baroe Railway (SHBSS)

From Burma to Nagasaki: the man who walked through hell

Japanese POW Card Lookup for KNIL & Marines (Japanse Interneringskaarten KNIL en Marine)

Japanese prisoner of war camps (Japanse krijgsgevangenkampen)

CBG|Centrum voor familiegeschiedenis: Je Indische Stamboom (Your Indies Family)

De ondergang van de Junyo Maru (The Downfall of the Junyo Maru)

A hidden mass murder in the Dutch East Indies

The Paradox of the Bersiap

Japanese Civilian POW Camps (Post-War/Bersiap)

KNIL: Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger / Royal Netherlands East Indies Army
ML-KNIL: Militaire Luchtvaart van het Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger / Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force

122 NEI Squadron

Annals of the Brewster Buffalo

KNILLER

Photos from the 121st & 122nd KNIL-ML Squadron

Roel Bazuin

Roel Bazuin Photoalbum
Roel has put together a great site with information and photos about the 122nd Squadron. If you know of anyone who was a part of this squadron, he would love to hear from you.